Worldwide 04.02.2015 14.11.2014
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04.02.2015 The art market was shocked and saddened by the news that Walter Liedtke, curator of the Dutch and Flemish painting department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, died in a train crash on the Metro-North railway line, February 3 evening.
31.01.2015 MARSEILLES. As a child, Marina Picasso lived almost in poverty, for a small allowance, which she received from her grandfather.
29.01.2015 LONDON. Culture Minister Ed Vaizey imposed a temporary ban on the export of a 17th-century painting by Claude Lorrain. Thus, the UK is trying to use the last chance to preserve a work of art domestically.
26.01.2015 LONDON. The Art Recovery Group, founded by expert Chris Marinello, who is considered the world’s most famous “hunter” for stolen art, founded an online platform Artclaim , which will accumulate information about all stolen or lost art objects or objects of unknown origin and unknown identity.
23.01.2015 BREAST. An unknown sketch of Van Gogh was discovered in an album of drawings by his friend, the French artist Emile Bernard (Emile Bernard, 1868-1941).
28.12.2014 LOS ANGELES. The agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Los Angeles police returned nine paintings worth a total of $ 24 million to the owners, including the work of the great Russian artist Marc Chagall.
25.12.2014 LONDON. Great Britain introduced a temporary ban on the export of one of the most exquisite landscapes of the Flemish artist Jan Brueghel the Elder in an attempt to preserve the picture of the XVII century inside the country.
24.12.2014 MOSCOW. Pavel Pepperstein, one of the most respected Russian artists, became the next winner of the annual Kandinsky Prize, one of the most important in the world of contemporary art.
22.12.2014 BERNE. The Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss city of Bern (Kunstmuseum Bern) published the first two lists of 290 works of art included in the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt
21.12.2014 NEW YORK. At the very end of November, William F. Ruprecht, long-time president and CEO of Sotheby’s, announced his resignation by mutual agreement. A few days later, on December 3, it became clear that its main competitor, the head of the auction house Christie’s, made a similar statement.
17.12.2014 MADRID. Madrid police are looking for about 70 paintings worth a total of about 600,000 euros stolen from the Puerta de Alcalá art gallery by three men last Thursday night.
15.12.2014 HONG KONG. The prototype of the "Mona Lisa" (Gioconda, 1503-19) may have been a mother Leonardo da Vinci (Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519). However, the most interesting thing is that the mother of the great scientist and artist may have been a Chinese slave.
20.11.2014 CAMBRIDGEThree Harvard museums are united under one roof and open to the public, after six years of construction. The idea of the project, developed by Renzo Piano, extends far beyond the simple expansion of the gallery’s exhibition space, combining more than 250,000 works of art in one of the most valuable collections in the world.
19.11.2014 WASHINGTON: The Smithsonian Institution today unveiled a reconstruction plan for the South Campus. The $ 2 billion project was developed by the Bjarke Ingels Group architectural bureau.
14.11.2014 LONDON. Auction house Christie’s discovered a previously unknown painting by Van Dyck, which depicts the head of a man. Now the work will be put up for sale in December this year with an estimate of £ 200,000- £ 300,000.